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Chesapeake Bay Sentinel Site Cooperative
Sarah Wilkins, CBSSC Coordinator
October 22, 2015
Presentation to the CBP STAR
Outline
• National Sentinel Site Program and the CBSSC
• What is a Sentinel Site? What is a Cooperative?
• Our partners and Cooperative Components
• CBSSC Monitoring Efforts and Infrastructure
• CBSSC Partner Efforts
• Next Steps
Photo credit: MD Sea Grant; Tal Elzer ODU
Image Credit: Come High Water Report 2014
Traditional Stove-pipe structure
THE CHALLENGE
Collaborative structure
NOAA Sentinel Site Program
SERC
A Sentinel site is like a…
A Cooperative is……owned and run by its members
Mutual benefits
…all parties share in the benefits of collaboration
Photo Credit: www.marshlife.org
Components of a Sentinel Site Cooperative
Science Service Stewardship
Observe & Monitor
Applied
Research
Models & Predictions
Spatial Analysis &
Visualization
Information
Transfer
Education &
Outreach
Management &
Decision Making
Monitoring Efforts and Infrastructure
• Water level gauges
• Wetland Surface Elevation Change (SETs)
• Local geodetic and tidal benchmarks
• Vegetation transects
• Submerged Aquatic Vegetation (SAV)
• Water quality data (real-time)
• Meteorological Data
• Groundwater dynamics
• Elective/Ancillary parameters (site-specific)
Sea Level RiseUpland
Bench Mark with Geodetic Control (NAVD88, etc.)
Surface Elevation Table (SET)
Tide Gauge
SET Wetland Bench MarkWetlandSubsidence
Total Local Inundation
Courtesy of Philippe Hensel, NOAA National Geodetic Survey
Sentinel Site Monitoring Infrastructure
CBSSC Partner Efforts
Surface Elevation Table Inventory
What’s Next?
• Continue to conduct site-specific analyses of the data to understand sea level rise and wetland dynamics at the ecological sentinel sites– Use outcomes to inform management at sites
• Move towards a Cooperative-wide analysis of sea level rise trends and wetland dynamics: “Snapshot”– Actively engage with end users to adapt to their
needs
Thank you!Sarah Wilkins
Coordinator, Chesapeake Bay Sentinel Site Cooperative
University of Maryland Sea Grant Extension
410-260-8904
